tag1

/tæɡ/

noun

1.

a piece or strip of paper, plastic, leather, etc, for attaching to something by one end as a mark or label: a price tag

2.

Also called electronic tag. an electronic device worn, usually on the wrist or ankle, by an offender serving a noncustodial sentence, which monitors the offender's whereabouts by means of a link to a central computer through the telephone system

3.

a small piece of material hanging from or loosely attached to a part or piece

4.

a point of metal or other hard substance at the end of a cord, lace, etc, to prevent it from fraying and to facilitate threading

5.

an epithet or verbal appendage, the refrain of a song, the moral of a fable, etc

6.

a brief quotation, esp one in a foreign language: his speech was interlarded with Horatian tags

7.

(grammar)

Also called tag question. a clause added on to another clause to invite the hearer's agreement or conversational cooperation. Tags are usually in the form of a question with a pronoun as subject, the antecedent of which is the subject of the main clause; as isn't it in the bread is on the table, isn't it?

a linguistic item added on to a sentence but not forming part of it, as John in are you there, John?

8.

an ornamental flourish as at the end of a signature

9.

the contrastingly coloured tip to an animal's tail

10.

a matted lock of wool or hair

11.

(angling) a strand of tinsel, wire, etc, tied to the body of an artificial fly

12.

(slang) a graffito consisting of a nickname or personal symbol

verb (mainly transitive) tags, tagging, tagged

13.

to mark with a tag

14.

to monitor the whereabouts of (an offender) by means of an electronic tag

15.

to add or append as a tag

16.

to supply (prose or blank verse) with rhymes

17.

(intransitive; usually foll by on or along) to trail (behind): many small boys tagged on behind the procession

18.

to name or call (someone something): they tagged him Lanky

19.

to cut the tags of wool or hair from (an animal)

20.

(slang) to paint one's tag on (a building, wall, etc)

Word Origin

C15: of uncertain origin; related to Swedish tagg point, perhaps also to tack1

tag2

/tæɡ/

noun

1.

Also called tig. a children's game in which one player chases the others in an attempt to catch one of them who will then become the chaser

2.

the act of tagging one's partner in tag wrestling

3.

(modifier) denoting or relating to a wrestling contest between two teams of two wrestlers, in which only one from each team may be in the ring at one time. The contestant outside the ring may change places with his team-mate inside the ring after touching his hand

(tāg) A sequence of characters in a markup language used to provide information, such as formatting specifications, about a document. Tags are enclosed in a pair of angle brackets that indicate to the browser how the text is to be displayed.

tag

children's game in which, in its simplest form, the player who is "it" chases the other players, trying to touch one of them, thereby making that person "it." The game is known by many names, such as leapsa in Romania and kynigito in parts of modern Greece. In some variants the children pretend that the touch carries some form of contagion-e.g., plague (Italy), leprosy (Madagascar), fleas (Spain), or "lurgy fever" (Great Britain). In others, a method of achieving immunity from touch is prescribed, as by touching wood, iron, or a specified colour or assuming a particular position (e.g., squatting). Often limitations or handicaps are imposed on the chaser: the child may be required to clasp hands and imitate a horned animal (stag, bull, or goat) or squat and hop like a frog while the others caper freely around him. In some games the chaser throws a ball at the intended victim. As a game progresses, the original chaser may enlist those touched to help catch the others; sometimes the captives link hands to form a chain, with the players on either end making the capture